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Elizabeth Wettlaufer worked at Meadow Park Long-Term Care in London, Ont., for only five months, but killed one resident. The home knew Wettlaufer had been fired from her previous job for a medication error, but hired her anyway.

South Korea's president urged North Korea on Wednesday to present a plan with concrete steps toward denuclearization, raising the pressure on leader Kim Jong-un during his visit to Beijing to discuss the outcome of his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the Trump administration's policy of separating illegal migrants from their children is "wrong," just hours before the U.S. president signalled he's prepared to change course and end the practice.

Distraught relatives slam Indonesia's government for not enforcing basic safety measures on passenger boats and plead for a bigger search effort for more than 190 people presumed drowned after a ferry sank on a picturesque Sumatran lake earlier this week.

The Senate has passed the contentious bill to legalize cannabis, but Canadians cannot legally light up for several weeks to give provinces time to set up a retail regime, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould warned today.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action for U.S. President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together after they are detained crossing the border illegally. She was at the White House where Trump told reporters he would be "signing something" shortly.

The U.S. is the focus of international outrage for its policy of detaining children and separating them from their parents after they cross the border seeking asylum. But Canada also detains migrant children — despite the fact its stated policy is to do whatever possible to avoid it.

A senior Department of Justice official running the internal review of the Hassan Diab extradition case also played a role in the Ottawa academic's extradition to France — something Diab's lawyer calls a clear conflict of interest.

Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three "tender age" shelters in south Texas, The Associated Press has learned.

Nearly 69 million people were forcibly displaced last year, a record for the fifth straight year, according to an annual report from the UN refugee agency. In Canada, asylum claims doubled from the previous year.

When U.S. President Donald Trump tried to ban migration from Muslim-majority countries, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent a tweet of welcome to the world. Now the Trump administration is locking up kids — and the PM is staying largely quiet.

Survivors of a 2016 suicide bomb attack outside Canada's Kabul embassy, along with the widows of the dead, are suing Ottawa and a private security contractor for money they say they were owed from insurance settlements and for rehabilitation.

The cost of health claims related to hearing loss among members of Canada's military is rising, due in part to the reluctance of members to wear protective equipment and because the most suitable devices aren't always provided.

Senators have voted to pass the federal government's bill legalizing recreational marijuana by a vote of 52 to 29, with two abstentions, paving the way for a fully legal cannabis market within eight to 12 weeks.

U.S. President Donald Trump launched another trade tirade against Canadians, accusing them Tuesday of sneaking their American shopping back home — all because of what he calls "massive" tariffs on American goods.

A new exhibit juxtaposing two generations of Inuit artists is the AGO's first by its recently revamped department of Canadian and Indigenous Art — a body that has been under scrutiny for its efforts at inclusion.

Many of the kids who've been taken from their families are under the age of four, according to New York Times data. Too young, obviously, to understand that when their parents crossed the border illegally they were stumbling into the White House's calculus for the midterm elections.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, where he will likely brief Chinese President Xi Jinping on his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last week, as Washington and Seoul agreed to suspend a major joint military exercise.

When she dressed up as the Grim Reaper for the nursing home Halloween party, nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer raised eyebrows, but her colleagues say they didn't know she was killing residents by injecting them with insulin. Wettlaufer's strange sense of humour and her inappropriateness with staff were discussed Monday at the Ontario public inquiry into long-term care that continues today.

U.S. President Donald Trump, facing a blast of criticism for the detention of children separated from their immigrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, was slated to meet with Republican lawmakers on Tuesday ahead of votes on immigration legislation.

A former Liberal MP may have used his connections with municipal officials in Collingwood, Ont. — including his sister, the mayor — to secure a $756,000 consulting fee that was hidden from taxpayers in the fast-growing resort town northwest of Toronto, police documents obtained by CBC News reveal.

With the European Union poised to hit American exports with retaliatory tariffs, those who sell or consume U.S. spirits in the United Kingdom are predicting the burgeoning market for whisky and bourbon could take a hit.

A former CIA employee was charged Monday with stealing classified national defence information from the agency that emerged publicly in March 2017, when WikiLeaks began releasing some of the CIA's hacking tools.

Canada is monitoring the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" migrant policy - which has led to the forcible detention of thousands of children - to determine if the U.S. remains a safe country for asylum seekers.

Washington and Beijing increasingly appear headed toward open trade conflict after negotiations failed to resolve U.S. complaints over Chinese industrial policies, lack of market access in China and a $375-billion U.S. trade deficit.

Thousands of children split from their families at the U.S. southern border are being held in government-run facilities. A look at how it came to this, what's real and what's not, and what might happen next.

Alexandre Bissonnette — who killed six men in a Quebec City mosque last year — does not embody the same psychopathic traits as Canada's worst serial killers, and should be granted the right to ask for parole in 25 years, his lawyers pleaded on Monday.

Facing a rising tide of outrage from Democrats and some Republicans over the forced separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Donald Trump digs in, again falsely blaming Democrats.

The father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, says he talked politics with her husband Prince Harry over the phone before the couple married — and that Harry argued he should give U.S. President Donald Trump a chance.

Does U.S. President Donald Trump plan to put rural America first at the expense of rural Canada? The way his tariff threats have united Canadians offers insight into this country's contrasting approach to market economics.

The federal Conservatives are hoping to take advantage of a high profile local candidate running in the Quebec riding of Chicoutimi-Le Fjord tonight to take earn back one of two seats snatched by the Liberals in federal byelections since 2015.

Campaign 2000 hopes the data will prod the government to approve a soon-to-be-finalized poverty-reduction strategy before next year's federal election, and enshrine commitments in legislation so it cannot be undone by a future government.

The third week of the inquiry into the long-term care system is expected to hear from former colleagues at nursing homes in Woodstock and London as well as representatives from the Ontario Nurses Association.

As the B.C. government reviews the leases of 20 fish farms that expire on June 20, opponents are upping their pressure campaign to end fish farming in the ocean — but supporters say that would be a huge blow to an industry that provides thousands of jobs.

By stating that a "mandatory covenant is not absolutely required," the Court has substituted its own judgment in place of that of the religious community's, in clear contravention to its own past rulings.

The Liberal government's bill to legalize recreational marijuana has cleared another vote in the House of Commons, but it still has to get a final stamp of approval from an unpredictable Senate before it can become law.

The B.C. government is reviewing the leases of 20 fish farms that expire on June 20. Opponents are upping their pressure campaign in hopes the government will commit to ending fish farming in the ocean. But supporters say that would be a huge blow to an industry responsible for thousands of jobs.

Does U.S. President Donald Trump plan to put rural America first at the expense of rural Canada? The way his tariff threats have united Canadians offers insight into this country's contrasting approach to market economics.

By stating that a "mandatory covenant is not absolutely required," the Court has substituted its own judgment in place of that of the religious community's, in clear contravention to its own past rulings.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau wasn't in a conflict of interest when he introduced a pension bill in the House of Commons while he still owned shares in his family's pension company, according to the ethics commissioner.

Caught in the mouth of a bear, Casadi Schroeder was prepared to die. The bear had clamped its teeth around her leg, and it felt like he was ripping her skin to the bone, when Schroeder felt a sense of peace overcome her terror.

The first ship in the Aquarius aid convoy docked Sunday at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for hundreds of people who were rescued from the perilous Mediterranean only to become the latest pawn in Europe's battle over immigration.

A Scotiabank report says if the United States breaks all trade ties with its partners — and imposes across-the-board tariffs that average 20 per cent — then Canada and Mexico would see their economies contract in 2020.

A group of First Nations students are getting a chance to dig up their ancestral past while taking part in an archaeology project near Cluny, Alta. The goal is to help the young people reconnect with their history at the source.